Central control of atrio-ventricular conduction and left ventricular contractility in the cat heart: Synaptic interactions of vagal preganglionic neurons in the nucleus ambiguus with neuropeptide Y-immunoreactive nerve terminals

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 131, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 57-64

  Blinder, Karen J ^a   Moore, Constance T ^a   Johnson, Tannis A ^a   John Massari, V ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dromotropic; Inotropic; Intrinsic cardiac ganglia; Vagus

Indexed keywords

HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; TRACER;

AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INOTROPISM; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINUS NODE; SYNAPSE; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALS; CATS; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SYNAPSES; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 33845626863     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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